On 03/25/09 11:25, Zhenghui.Xie at Sun.COM wrote: > Michael Schuster wrote: >> On 03/25/09 11:13, Zhenghui.Xie at Sun.COM wrote: >> >>>> this is in direct contradiction to what we have now: as the spec has >>>> it, you need to *explicitly* remove all configuration if you want to >>>> start afresh. >>>> >>> >>> I didn't get it. Why is it contradiction? Are you saying we need to >>> provide some command to clean the configuration, before user does an >>> import? >> >> ... if they want to *replace* existing configuration, not just add to >> it, they need to remove all existing config; we already have commands >> in place for that (ilbadm destroy-X). >> > > And we are asking user to do too much work to replace some configuration > (four commands at least) and I don't think it is right. Why not simply > replace the existing configuration with the imported one? I think it is > what import implies anyway. And what does an incremental import buy us?
I'm not arguing, just stating how it is at the moment. I don't care either way, but want to avoid undocumented changes to the spec. Michael -- Michael Schuster http://blogs.sun.com/recursion Recursion, n.: see 'Recursion'
